The groundbreaking novel introduced ideas that continue to shape conversations about surveillance, truth, and unchecked power ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big Brother, the all-seeing dictator in 1984, as seen in the film version of the novel released in 1984 starring John Hurt as ...

That’s what George Orwell would say if he could visit our world, 75 years after he wrote his final novel, "1984." Orwell sought to demonstrate the dangers not just of totalitarianism but of a world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It has been 76 years since "1984," George Orwell's warning about government control, censorship and the corruption of language, ...

The literary term “anastrophe” refers to the technique of reversing word order in a sentence for effect. (Yoda, think of.) Some retellings of celebrated stories enact a kind of anastrophe on a higher ...

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As he sat down to write "1984," George Orwell was reeling from the death of a wife and suffering from a lung ailment. ZUMAPRESS.com Jura is a small island off the coast of Scotland, famous for two ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Beers is a professor of history at American University, where she teaches a seminar on George Orwell and the making of the modern world. She is the author of “Your Britain: Media ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Lev Mendes THE MINISTRY OF TRUTH The Biography of George Orwell’s “1984” By Dorian Lynskey ...